[2839] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Microsoft Merchant Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Casti)
Thu Aug 29 11:34:34 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:01:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Casti <quire@vector.casti.com>
To: Sean Wiley <swiley@mmts.eds.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <322451CB.4DAA@mmts.eds.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
MS had information about it on their website (http://www.microsoft.com)
yesterday.
Bill
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Sean Wiley wrote:
> John Lehmann (SSASyd) wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about the Microsoft Merchant Server, or of
> > sites that are using it successfully?
> >
>
> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but when we contacted Microsoft last
> week about this, we were told that they were about 30 days from a beta
> release. The press releases you have seen are probably just the usual
> pre-announcements.
>
> I believe that some of the public info about the product includes the
> fact that it is based on the eShop product they purchased and that it
> will make heavy use of ActiveX and their COM model. I have no specific
> security info at this time.
>
>
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>
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> except by bizarre coincidence
>
